A hot afternoon in Mashhad and my cold dessert

When you're happy of something, nothing can make you feel bad. Even a very hot afternoon in the house. I just made this dessert and made my day more pleasant. Thinking of you friends...Let's have a pice of that!

Imam Reza Holy Shrine; inside view

After some months of stop blogging, today I felt that I need to start it again. During this time I was busy with studying and also not much interested in photographing and writing. I passed difficult days, name it difficult because I was not in a good mood. Now I just want to stop thinking about silly things and do what ever which makes me happy and fresh like all those old days. Of course one of them is blogging!

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And about today's post...You can see the inside of Imam Reza's shrine. The place that I really love not just because I believe in Islam but because of the relaxing atmosphere it has.

Since it's forbidden to take photo by camera from the inside, I took these pictures by my mobile camera so forgive me for the bad quality!

Persian Handmade Carpets # 1

Cyrus The Great and his wife

Rural Women are baking bread

  Not a Persian picture but made as a Persian Carpet and you see how it is censored!

Isfahani Style

Gelim

Khoresh Gheimeh

Gheimeh or Qeymeh (Persian: قیمه) is a Persian stew of which the main ingredients are cubed lamb, yellow split peas, onion and dried lime. This stew is combined with either thin French fries or eggplant and usually served with rice. The best kind of Gheimeh is cooked in Mashhad which is named Gheyme Mashhadi. I and my mom has cooked and decorated a dish of Gheymeh Mashhadi for you. Hope enjoy it!

To know about the recipe please click here!

Miniature Grandmom

I'm so sorry that I can not update the blog regularly because of my different jobs. May should say Mashhad SOMETIMES photo instead of Daily! The main problem is with finding subject to take photo since I do not go out of home much.

Today's photo shows you a handy craft that I made many years a go with pea, beans and rice and like to share its picture today :)

Loghman Mosque

Loghman Mosque, Shohada Square

How much sweet one can be?!

Here you see one of our four dogs "Poppy". He is a lovely pet! A really smart, playful and cute dog that I've ever seen...

Happy Mother's Day

It's a kind of flower named Abshar Talayi in Farsi (Golden Waterfall)

Today is Mother's Day in Iran and also recognized as Women's Day here. I wish all the bests for Iranian women and girls especially kind moms. Happy Mother's Day!

I apologize for my long absence in the blog. Hope to not do it again :)

Hail and Rain Storm ; Again !

These photos show the crazy weather of Sunday. Just wondering about it....

* The camera date is not correct

Mashhad City Hall

This is the old building of Mashhad City hall in Shohada Square. A very big project is now in progress around it. Repairing the old texture and solving the traffic problem is some items of this project.

Rain in Tehran

Founding these impressive shots from a rainy day in Tehran made me excited. Especially the one shows sweepers are helping people to pass the water!

!ABC Wednesday: "R" for Rooster

I sometimes become shocked by strange views in the city. This is one of them; A Rooster was walking in the city!!! I never saw something like that before but it is maybe natural in the downtown ! 

Ahmad Abad Avenue

I captured this photo in a cloudy afternoon while I was walking on the foot bridge. City seems so messy, I don't know why?!

Ya Fatemeh

These days city is full of the black placards about Fatemeh (daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad). It's nice to know about her life. If you are interested, click Here!

Khatoon

Khatoon is the symbol of a Persian woman. A black eyed women with a kind of brightness in her face!

I drew and painted this picture for a friend and now she has received it.

I also had a related photo in my older blog that you can see by clicking here.

Women in Iran

I had some post about the way Iranian women wear Hijab on my older blog but these days it is a hot topic in Iran. THEY started to involve with women who wear tight uniform and make up or in the other words women in attractive appearance. What really make a woman attractive?! Wearing light colors, make up, visible hair, tight cloth…Right! You found the answer of your question that why most of Iranian women wear black!

As a Muslim girl, I choose to have a suitable appearance in the way my religion asks but I do not agree with something they ask Iranian Woman to do. If THEY let women to appear in their optional way, they would never make such stupid styles. A Compulsory Hijab never works!

Photos from the Past

Tehran Avenue

 

Imam Reza Shrine

Darvazeh Talayi (Golden Gate)

These photos are from 50 years ago. I found them through the internet.

Dolmeh Irani

Dolmeh is one of our traditional delicious foods. It is cooked in different flavors such as salty, sweet, and sour. But the most popular type is salty. I know that Arabs has this food in their own way of cooking. Nowadays, Dolmeh is not a very usual food in Iranian houses since this is difficult to cook and take a long time to prepare, but still is cooked in grand mamas houses. My mom tries to prepare it one or tow times in a year and this year I learned to cook it, too. It was such a different experience!

If you are interested to know the recipe, visit my blog of Iranian Kitchen!

Special Bike

It's a bicycle in Steqlal Square. You can see why it is different!

Kooh Sangi Park

Kooh Sangi (in Persian ) or Stone Mountain (in English) is one of the most beautiful spots and is situated on the southern fringes of the city. To the front of this hillock stands a summer house with a large pool - this pool runs 100 m. in length and 60 m. in width. This pool is fed by subterranean waters (Qanat) from the Gonabad area. Running alongside are paved paths and trees which enhance the beauty of this area which are also famed as "Dalan-e-Behesht" (The corridor to Paradise).

Reference of the text : http://www.itto.org/

Kooh Sangi Park- Now

Kooh Sangi-Past